The Hodayot (Thanksgiving Psalms)—A Study Edition of 1QHa

Schuller and Newsom created this book to clarify the ordering and numbering of the columns and lines of the 1QHa manuscript. This book is ideal for scholars and graduate students who want to work with Hebrew text. This text can accompany the photographic plates, detailed analysis of the reconstruction, extensive notes, and full concordance in the DJD 40. The contents include sigla, abbreviations, the hodayot manuscripts, converting columns/fragments and line numbers from the Sukenik system, converting from the reconstructed scroll to Sukenik's columns and fragments, Dividing 1QHa into individual Psalms, bibliography, Hebrew text and English translation of columns 1-28, unplaced fragments of scribe A, unplaced fragments of scribe C, and word list. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Eileen M. Schuller is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University. She is co-editor with Hartmut Stegemann of 1QHodayota and editor of the cave 4 Hodayot manuscripts and other prayer and psalmic texts from the Dead Sea Scrolls, and author of The Dead Sea Scrolls: What Have We Learned? (Westminster John Knox, 2006). Carol A. Newsom is Charles Howard Candler Professor of Old Testament/Hebrew Bible at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is the editor of the Songs of the Sabbath Sacrifice and other documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the author of The Book of Job: A Contest of Moral Imaginations (Oxford University Press, 2003) and The Self as Symbolic Space: Constructing Identity and Community at Qumran (Brill, 2004).